Summary

That brings you to the end of this chapter. Let’s have a recap of the valuable things you have learned. You learned how to set up PostgreSQL on your local machine using the installer or Docker container.

You have also learned about the concepts and advantages of Spring Data JPA in Spring Boot and how to add it to your application, which is helpful in creating services with CRUD capabilities with less boilerplate code.

Last but not least, you learned how to connect your Spring Boot application with the PostgreSQL database using JDBC and Spring Data JPA.

In the next chapter, we will be learning how to start our server, how to add controllers, models, and services in our code, and about Redis for caching.